An overlooked film in America, METROLAND is a masterful portrayal of the dynamics of fantasy and relationships; youth, seeking the worlds of their dreams, returning to their once-loathed programming and the pitiable reconciliation through conventional mediocrity. The ever-complex Emily Watson, staight-from-the-heart Elsa Zylberstein and enigmatically sly Lee Ross surround Christian Bale under the brilliant direction of the highly under-rated TV director, Philip Saville, seemingly guided by the ghosts of Ingmar Bergman and John Cassavetes in a modern-day interpretation of Flaubert's SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION and MADAME BOVARY.
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mostly my nostalgic and frequently puerile reflections on old movies, music and whatever pops from the recesses of memory....i have detailed memory of the oddest and more insignificant details.......these memories codify and indelibly emboss the past into my portrait of the future.......and a bit queer, to boot!
About Me
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- pragmatic sensualist, motivated by really deep instincts, actualized by willful imaginings and perpetuated by other's desires. Abstract, yet clear in purpose, honest, but abstruse, my moods change like winds and water with my confidences, and when ungrounded, i am both guarded and vulnerable, leaning, in darkness, to the Light, nurtured by instinctual feelings arising from a deep gene pool.
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